Game-board



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ISAAC ADDISON BUSH, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

GAME-BOARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 352,116, dated November 9, 1886.

Applicationiiled May 2:2, 1886. Serial No. 202,974. (No model.) I

.To all whom it may concern.:

Be it known that I, Isaac ADDISON BUsH, a citizen of thc United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and `State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain -whose surface bears a diagram representing one or more sets of squares or divisions, called tables. Its novelty is found in the arrangement of the divisions and the use of combinations of numbers in those divisions, as is fully explained hereinafter.

In playing this game dice are thrown and progress is made by the chance matching of the numbers on the dice with' those in the squares on the board. Pieces or men placed on'these numbers mark the players advance toward the home-table.7

I have named the game Latine Nit Noe,77 and the accompanying drawing is a plan view of the board, and of the men, dice, and cups used in playing the game.

This game is founded on the fact that two hundred and fifty-two different combinations of the kinds herein mentioned may be formed with the six numbers on a dice. The board is' divided into seven tables, in order to classify these combinations.

A single table, or any two or more of the tables, may be used separately as a complete game, if desired.

As shown in the drawing, table No. 1 contains six combinations, the numbers in each square being different from those in the other squares in respect of one gure. Example, one, two, three, four, six. Table No. 2 contains sixty combinations, there being two numbers alike or a pair, and three unlike or odd. Example, two sixes and ve, four, and three. Table No. 3 contains sixty combinations, there being two pairs and one odd.' Example, two sixes, two fives, and a four. Table No. 4 contains sixty combinations, there being three of a kind and two odd. Example, three twos, a six, and a five. Table No. 5 has thirty combinations, they being three of one kind anda pair. Example, three sixes and two ves. Table No. 6 contains thirty combinations, four of a kind and one odd. Example, four sixes and a iive. Table No. 7 contains six combinations, the numbers being all alike. Example, iive sixes.

In the tables numbered 3, 4, 5, and 6, in order to avoid a repetition of numbers, I have grouped the squares in the drawing into rows or columns, headed by the numbers which are common to those squares. By this arrangement,also7 any given number may be quickly found.

The dice-cups in the drawing are designated by the letter A, the dice by the letter B, and the men by the letter G.-

It is possible to play a great variety ofv games on this board; but I here explain only the method of playing the game in which all the tables are used.

This game is played by any number of persons provided with five dice and a cup, and each having a set of three men numbered respectively 1,2', 3, each set being, for distinc` tion, of a different colorV or shape from the other sets. If on throwing the dice, the rst player gets tive numbers corresponding to the numbers in either division of table No. 1, he places man No. l on that square and throws again either to enter man No. 2 in table 1, or to advance piece 1 to table 2, which he can do only by throwing two numbers alike, or a pair, and three unlike, and so he proceeds th rough the different tables in their numerical order. Ony his failure to match the dice with the numbers in the table which he must next enter, another person plays in turn. If aplayer throwsa number already covered by his Vopponents man, he takes up that man and who succeeds in first entering all his men in the home-table'-wins the game. -V

When a single division or table is used in a game, the same general rules are in force as JI OC when all the tables are used, except that the player enters that table directly when lis throw entitles him to do it, and goes thence direct to the home-table; but all his men must be on the table before entering any of them home.

The technicalities of the various games played with this gaming-set are detailed in a book of rules accompanying each board.

I do not limit myself to the exact arrangement of the tables shown in the drawing, nor to the arrangement of the divisions in each table, with their names or numbers as therein represented, nor to the use at one time of all the tables described in publishing or in playing this game.

I am aware that diagrammatic game-boards,- designed to be played upon with men and dice, are not new, and I do not, broadly, elai 1n such as my invention.

Vhat I do elaim,and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

I. A game-board having six divisions, cach division containing five different dice-numbers, and no two divisions having all its numbers alike, in combination with sets of three men, each numbered respectively l, 2, and 3, the sets differing in color or shape, and iive dice and cups, as herein described.

2. Agame-board having sixty divisions, each division having two dice-nun1bers alike and three different, and no two divisions having their numbers alike, in combination with men and dice, as herein described.

3. A game-board havingsixty divisions,cach division having two pairs of dice-numbers and one odd number, in combination with men and dice, as herein set forth.

4. A game-boardhaving sixty divisions,each division containing three dicenumbers alike and two unlike, in combination with nien and dice, as herein sctforth.

5. A game-board having thirty divisions, each division containing three dice-numbers o f one kind and two of one other kind, in combination with men and dice, as herein dcscribed.

6. A game-board having thirty divisions, each division containing four (lice-numbers of a kind and one different, in combination with men and dice, as herein described.

7. A game-board having six divisions, each containing five dice-numbers all alike,in combination with nien and dice, as herein dcscribed.

S. A playcrs chart or board haifing seven numerical tables and one home-table, the said numerical tables having two hundred and fifty-two divi-sions, each division containing five dice-numbers, either singly, in twos,in threes, in fours, in fives, or in sixcs, the said numbers being combined differently in each of the said divisions, for the purposes herein set forth.

9. The hereizrdcscribed gaming-set, coni- ISAAC ADDISON BUSH.

\Vitnesses:

A. Mxnknm., N. A. BUsn. 

